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If you don’t want to face the steep learning curve of Adobe Photoshop but you still want to conjure up some imaging magic, you need to look elsewhere.
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So, have you considered using Microsoft Word?
What! MS Word as a replacement for Photoshop! Perish the thought. It can’t hold a candle against the giant, but it does have a few tools to light some creative fires.
There are some amazing image editing feats you can do with MS Word 2017 and its image editing tools. Let’s fire up the creative Zen.
Head for the Picture Tools
Most of the image editing magic in MS Word lies in the Picture Tools tab.
The PictureTools work on all image types you insert in Word document. Most of the options are self-explanatory, but it’s the image editing feats you can do with them or in combination with options like Text Effects that makes it all interesting.
It Could Start With a Screenshot
It could just have escaped you, but Microsoft Word (and the other apps too) does have a handy screenshot tool. You can quickly use it to take a screen clip of the open Windows (including browser windows) or something on the desktop and insert into your open document.
With Screen Clipping, your entire window turns temporarily become opaque or “frosted over”. Your selection will show through this opaqueness when you drag to select it.
Embed an Image in a Shape
You can create interesting graphics by using a combination of a shape and a picture inside it letting the shape acts as a frame.
First, choose Insert > Shape. Choose any shape…even a free-form shape can be filled with an image. You can press the Shift key while drawing the shape to draw a perfectly proportioned shape.
With the shape on the canvas and selected, the Drawing Tools appear on the ribbon. Select Shape Fill > Picture. Click on Insert and the picture is embedded inside the shape.
To fine tune the graphic, you can right-click on the picture and choose Format Shape. For instance, you can use the Crop settings to position the picture. You can also go to the Fill settings and change the transparency level.
Give Your Edges a Softer Touch
Instead of just inserting an image, you can stylize it a bit by introducing soft edges to the picture. It gives the appearance of the image slowly fading into the background of the page.
Insert your picture by selecting the Soft Edge Rectangle under Picture Styles.
To enhance the softness, right-click on the image and bring up the Format Picture dialog box. You can play around with the options here – specifically the Glow and Soft Edges settings. For Soft Edges, you can use the presets or drag the slider to change the look. The effect looks really nice with black & white photos.
Remove Background
The Remove Background feature is a part of the Picture Tools menu.
Move one of the handles on the bounding lines and then drag the lines so that you include the portion of the image that you wish to keep and exclude the areas you wish to remove. For linear shapes it works well, but for more complicated shapes, you have to finetune it a bit.
Click on Mark Areas to Keep to demarcate the parts of the picture you do want removed and click on Mark Areas to Remove to demarcate the parts of the picture you want removed. You can always click on Delete Mark to correct the marker points.
Finally, click on Keep Changes to finalize the background removal and close the tool.
Use “Layers” In Word
No, image editing on Word isn’t as advanced as Photoshop when it comes to layers. But there is a workaround. Word has an option called – In Front of Text. You can find it under Picture Tools > Wrap Text.
Selecting In Front of Text helps you stack multiple images on top of one another like layers and apply interesting effects.
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You could remove the background of the top image so that only the image in the foreground remains. This will allow you to make visible any artistic effects on the bottom picture.
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Using the Remove Background tool, apply Mark Areas to Keep at different points, Then use Mark Areas to Remove to mark areas you want to remove. Select Keep Changes to save the changes and remove the background from the top ‘layer’.
Now, you can use different color effects (e.g. change color saturation or recolor) and/or Artistic effects to the bottom image and create interesting combinations. For instance, you can recolor the bottom image to sepia, while keeping the colored image on top.
Not A Replacement But A Handy Stand-In
There’s so much more one can do with images and MS Word . This brief article can only serve as an introductory stepping stone to the graphical adventures ahead.I have left out some of the more obvious image editing feats you can perform like
I have left out some of the more obvious image editing feats you can perform like apply artistic effectsHow To Take A Screenshot & Apply Artistic Effects With The New MS Word 2010 How To Take A Screenshot & Apply Artistic Effects With The New MS Word 2010 If Microsoft 2007 covered all that you could think of doing with a document, think again. Two new features (among the ten or so) introduced in Microsoft Word 2010 help to reduce your dependency on...Read Morechange the brightness, contrast, or blurriness of a picture; or in the end save the original version of an edited picture to the linked tutorials.
Do you know an amazing image editing feat which one can perform on MS Word? Share them with us.
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But it's not possible to export the changes outside of word? I've been unable to find that.
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Thanks for the tips! This is much more convenient for whipping up a simple title page than through Photoshop.
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very nice
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i speak english in slow motion @learn also slow
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Thanks
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Great article guys, I didn't realize the picture tools in Word were this sufficient
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Now this is creative. I'd try some techniques. From my experience though, do this a lot and that document will be painfully slow to pen.
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This is a good tutorial, but how to save it as a picture image, most of use want the edited picture in blog, or etc..
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If you need to make posters, you can always use Powerpoint. It has all the same features, but it's easier to move around objects and place them where you want.
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Cool, i've been using powerpoint for the same tasks for some time now. =)
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No. No no no no no. Don't ever tell anyone to edit images in word. I have lost count of the number of times a client is asked for a high resolution version of their logo and what they give me is an image in a Word document. It's like asking someone to use a hammer for a job that requires a screw driver. Word does one thing well. Everything else it ruins.
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settles whether I upgrade to Office 2010 or not! WOW!!
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This settles whether I get the upgrade or not! WOW!!
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Great site - Great stuff - Gooder than any other tech? site I've tripped over!
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There are opensource alternatives to Photoshop that are designed manipulate graphics. While you fully illustrate what can be done with the limited tools of Word, you should be pointing users towards full solutions such as GIMP or Inkscape too.
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Great tools in MS WORD. I had no clue. Thank you for sharing all the wonderful things you do. I always look forward to learning new things from you!
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That was very helpful. :D
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I use all these features when printing my photos.:-)
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This is cool. Need to check out all of these features.
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Nice tips.
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Works for the simpler stuff. Awesome regardless.
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woah, didnt know i could do this all with word, guess i can stop using paint now lol
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never knew abt these features. Thanks
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Thanks..thats a really helpful topic...
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nice article,very handy :)
Everything you see in Office for Mac is on a layer, where some layers are closer to you than others. Farthest away from you is the background layer. The next layer is the text layer. Any additional objects, such as pictures, WordArt, shapes, or text boxes that are added, are placed in layers closer to you with each additional object. With Office 2011’s tools, you can format the background, group objects together into a single layer, control the order of the layers of selected objects, and even rotate or flip objects.
Formatting the background layer in Office
The layer that’s farthest to the back is the background layer. You can access the background by the following three methods:
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Word: Follow these steps:1. Click the Ribbon’s Layout Tab. In the Page Background group, click Color. In the pop-up menu, choose Fill Effect.2. In the Resulting Fill Effects dialog, click the Picture option.3. Click the Select Picture button to display the Choose a Picture dialog.4. Choose a picture to use as the document background.
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Excel: Choose Format→Sheet→Background. In the resulting Choose a Picture dialog, choose a picture to use as the worksheet’s background.
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PowerPoint: Choose Format→Slide Background to display the Format Background dialog.
Arranging the layers in Office files
Until Office 2011, to arrange the order of objects in the layers above the text layer, you would right-click an object and choose one of four Arrange options:
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Bring to Front
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Send to Back
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Bring Forward (one layer)
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Send Backward (one layer)
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Of course, you can still do this in Office 2011, and these options are now available on the Format tab of the Ribbon.
Word’s Publishing Layout view and PowerPoint’s Normal view have the new Dynamic Reorder objects feature that relieves you of the burden of keeping track of the order of your objects. A simple, intuitive interface displays your objects in order, numbered beginning with the number 1 as the layer on top, the one that’s closest to you. You can simply drag any layer to a new position in the order.
If you want, you can restrict the objects being reordered to only those objects that overlap each other: In the Arrange group of the Format tab, click Reorder Overlapping Objects.
Rotating and flipping layers in Office 2011
The Rotate button (found in the Format tab’s Arrange group) offers options that allow for rotation in specified increments:
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Rotate Right 90 Degrees
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Rotate Left 90 Degrees
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Flip Vertical
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Flip Horizontal
Grouped objects behave unpredictably with these controls. You may need to ungroup the objects, use the controls, and then regroup everything.